Sentences with phrase «benefits conditionality»

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Enforcing such conditionality not only required a large and expensive bureaucracy, but created a perverse incentive for beneficiaries to remain poor and unemployed so as not to lose their benefits.

Bluntly, it is about educating us all about the realities of life on welfare benefits and about conditionality.

Punitive conditionality policies feed off an «us and them» perception of welfare: they — «the benefit scroungers» — get it, while we — the «respectable taxpayers» — don't.

«We will be taking a tougher approach to conditionality [for benefit claimants].

We've done this in welfare, for instance through the introduction of greater conditionality — meaning that those who are out of work must show they are taking meaningful steps to find employment, in return for getting their benefits.

Perhaps most worrying of all, Labour has not disavowed the work of Liam Byrne (and indeed Iain Duncan Smith) that appears to pave the way for the introduction of conditionality from the Department for Work & Pensions and access via benefit cards, as in Australia.

Please tell me how grossly and illegally underpaid State Benefits, along with conditionality / Benefit Sanctions and the resulting proliferation of Foodbanks, improve working class conditions?

• Kinship Care Alliance briefing on the Welfare Reform Bill, House of Lords, 2nd Reading, and proposed amendments on conditionality and the benefit cap, September 2011